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Warm Up- March 17, 2014 Page 58 1 3 2 5 4 • Number 1 -5 • Write the names of the territories next to its number

Please make a new unit page on the next right hand page in your spiral. The title is: WESTWARD EXPANSION Groups of people seek out new opportunities that will help them expand improve.

Do This Now!! • You will need your textbook today. • Put your Westward Expansion map homework in the bucket. • Open your notebook to page 16. Title it Warm Up 1/21/15.

Warm Up-1 -21 -15 Based on yesterday’s lesson, what were some of the motivating factors that people had for traveling West?

Trends in America: 1800 -1860 1. Greater democracy & the return of the twoparty system Transcendentalism Second Great 2. Temperance, Abolition, Women’s Rights, Emergence of a national market economy Education & Asylum Awakening 3. Increase in federal power Reform Universal white 4. Democrats vs. Whigs New intellectual & religious movements manhood suffrage 5. Social reforms American System: 6. Further in industry, Rise westward expansion transportation, urbanization, immigration Jackson’snd BUS Jefferson’s purchase tariff, 2 use of of Louisiana the veto “King Cotton, ” commercial farming, slave vs. paid labor systems

John C Fremont 1843 -1844 mapped Jedediah Smith 1822 -1830 was Western Exploration 1800 -1830 st the overland trails to Oregon & the 1 American to explore Major Stephen. California explored Long 1819 -1820 Zebulon Pike 1806 -1807 mapped Great Plains & Rocky the Great Plains & tried to scare off. Mountains trappers British fur Lewis & Clark 1804 -1806 were part of 1 st U. S. sponsored western exploratory mission

Overland Immigration to the West Between 1840 & 1860, more than 250, 000 people made the trek westward

Manifest Destiny A conviction(idea) shared by many Americans that it was the divine fate of the United States to extend its borders from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

• Louisiana Purchase (1803) – Purchased from France – Doubled the size of the U. S. • Florida (1819) – Purchased for $5 million from Spain

Annexation of Texas (1845) • annexation_-to add on a territory onto your country • Texas won independence from Mexico • James K Polk (President 1844) • U. S. reluctant to add a slave state, but did in 1845

The Oregon Boundary Dispute But, the USA & England Oregon residents compromised & demanded the divided Oregon entire territory: In 1846, President Polk notified Britain that the along 49 th “ 54º 40’ or fight!” U. S. wanted full control of Oregon 1846 parallel in

Territorial Expansion by Mid-19 th Century Benefits of Oregon: Oregon the U. S. gained its 1 st deep-water port in the Pacific & Northern abolitionists saw Oregon as a balance to slave-state Texas

Oregon Country • Lure =geography (fertile soil, mild temps, rainfall) • Claimed by both Britain and America • Compromised on the 49 th parallel with a treaty-1846

U. S. Mexican War (1845 -1848) • Mexico was upset and disputed the southern border of Texas • Nueces River or Rio Grande? ? • The U. S. tried to buy Mexican Cession, but failed • President Polk orders troops into the contested area (picking a fight)-1846

John C Fremont won in California The Mexican-American War The disputed Zachary Taylor won in area of Texas northern Mexico Stephen Kearney captured New Mexico Winfield Scott captured Mexico City

Ending the Mexican War The U. S. grew 20% by buying the • In 1848, U. S. & Cession for $15 million the Mexican Mexico ended the war with Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Hidalgo (present-day NM, AZ, CA, Utah, NV, & parts of CO & WY The Rio Grande became the recognized U. S.

Gadsden Purchase (1853) • purchased from Mexico for $10 Million • bought for a Railroad that linked the South and the Pacific Coast

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